Search Details

Word: latterâ (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Whether listening or questioning?usually the latter???Luce, a classical scholar at Yale, had a Socratic approach to ideas and issues. He was one of the most quotable men of his era (see boxes on following pages) but, perhaps because of the nature of his position, was seldom quoted. Though he was often condemned by the unknowing as dogmatic and opinionated?which he could be?his was generally the most open and inquiring of minds. Good journalists, he said, are "vessels of truth." He tended on the whole to take an optimistic view of history. Quoting Disraeli's proposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: HENRY R. LUCE: End of a Pilgrimage | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

| 1 |